Defra has published a list of the successful applicants for funds for Local Nature Partnerships capacity building. The Natural Environment White Paper, recognised that partnership working is the best way to achieve effective action for the natural environment and set out its vision for Local Nature Partnerships. Once established, their overall purpose will be to bring a diverse range of individuals, businesses and organisations together at a local level to create a vision and plan of action of how the natural environment can be taken into account in decision making.
Defra has launched a new Ecosystems Knowledge Network which aims to share understanding of the ecosystems approach to environmental assessment and accounting. This is being organised with the Natural Capital Initiative (NCI) which brings together perspectives from science, economics and policy.